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Diploid
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MySpace Spreads Spyware
#5880835 - 07/20/06 09:54 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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RESTON, VA, United States (UPI) -- Millions of visitors to Myspace.com and other Web sites have been infected with spyware by a banner advertisement, said Reston, Va., company iDefense.
iDefense, an Internet security company owned by Verisign, said the spyware infects unpatched versions of Windows using a security flaw in the way the operating system and Microsoft Internet Explorer open Windows Metafile images, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
The banner ad, for DeckOutYourDeck.com, loads a Trojan horse program onto unpatched systems that installs adware of the PurityScan/ClickSpring family, said Michael La Pilla, an iDefense 'malcode' analyst. He said the adware tracks the user`s Internet usage and causes the infected system to be flooded with pop-up ads.
La Pilla said the installation program contacts a Russian-language server in Turkey that counts how often the program is installed. He said the site suggests that the program has been installed on 1.07 million computers.
http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1182541.php/Ad_on_MySpace_spreads_spyware
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Schwip
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Re: MySpace Spreads Spyware [Re: Diploid]
#5880874 - 07/20/06 10:13 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thank you, again, Firefox 
Shame on verisign!
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Seuss
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Re: MySpace Spreads Spyware [Re: Schwip]
#5880975 - 07/20/06 10:49 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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> Shame on verisign!
Why?
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wilshire
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Re: MySpace Spreads Spyware [Re: Diploid]
#5881182 - 07/20/06 11:59 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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use windows if you must, but if you're still using IE, you deserve to get infected.
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Schwip
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Re: MySpace Spreads Spyware [Re: Schwip]
#5881493 - 07/20/06 01:50 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Oops....totally thought they said the banner was owned by verisign!
doh!
the heat must be getting to me today.
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Re: MySpace Spreads Spyware [Re: Schwip]
#5883648 - 07/21/06 04:39 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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^^^
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Baby_Hitler
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Re: MySpace Spreads Spyware [Re: Diploid]
#5899272 - 07/25/06 07:14 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Would this be the Java/ByteVerify trojan I found on my system recently?
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